Quotes About Change

the very phenomenon being investigated may be changed by the inquiry itself. It is as if there were a principle of human indeterminacy at work.

Each of us becomes a new person as we redescribe the past.

I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

The Beijing social commentator Li Fan once wrote a monograph on Christianity in China declaring that China's unregistered churches were the only real example of civil society—in other words, organizations independent of government control that tried to change or improve society.

Karl Marx's dictum that 'men do make their own history, but . . . under given and imposed conditions'.

Governmental disorder and 'cumulative radicalization' were two sides of the same coin.

A Real Love of Books All of us have a unique story to tell. We all have valuable life experiences. We have treasured memories, the building blocks that give us substance, and make us alive. We have experienced change, the birth of a child, the death of a loved one or the founding of our own town. The rise and fall of our organizations and the development or destruction of our communities. What's your story? A Real Love of Books

Sensitive dependence on initial conditions; one word, one act, can change the world. Well they named it chaos theory.

He never looked great but he's dreadful now, face thin and eyes staring like you see in cartoons of mad imams and hunched over. If that's what God does to you you should pick your friends more carefully.

We always thought the robot apocalypse would be fleets of killer drones and war mecha the size of apartment blocks and terminators with red eyes. Not a row of mechanised checkouts

Where Grissom Bunt, Category Twelve PainCriminal, whoever he was, had gone. From which Grissom Bunt would never emerge again. Not as Grissom Bunt. She pictured a shaved naked skull crisscrossed with blue-ridged suture lines, heard a voice saying, "I wouldn't hurt a fly, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't

She left the pneumatique at the next stop and went to see what she had done to the world.

So I said, like, whazz new, I mean, like new new, not old new, yuh know, like last-week new

Faces, places … such and such a face appeared at such and such a place, such and such a face disappeared at such and such a place, such and such a face was always in the third seat from the left when she got on, such and such a face was always hanging from the strap by the door when she got off … same faces, same places. But not today! Today those faces are two hours behind Courtney Hall, it's different faces today, let's have a look at them, what do we see?

Agency is a comforting fairy story. Life is a series of doors that only open one way. We can never return. This is the world and we must live in it the best we can.

Back to the world at the time of the Break. Don't be afraid, it won't hurt you

Every war is a profound sexual revolution.

he could be anyone, anything, nuh? You want us all to get Social Counseling, eh? Everyone up in West One?

Everything is different when the Earth is round.

And what was it pen and fingers had drawn? What else. Wee Wendy Waif. As she could be. As she should be. As she would be. Now. Courtney Hall's smile was as bitter as her chocolate.

She could not go back. To the Transients' Hostel. To Kilimanjaro West, her home. To Armitage-Weir and her warm, friendly office. Home. She sat, crushed by a sense of looming inevitability ponderous as a falling moon.

Nothing tells you that you are not on Earth anymore than exhaling at one price and inhaling at another.

We always thought the robot apocalypse would be fleets of killer drones and war mecha the size of apartment blocks and terminators with red eyes. Not a row of mechanised checkouts in the local Extra and the alco station; online banking; self-driving taxis; an automated triage system in the hospital. One by one, the bots came and replaced us.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.